Ezekiel 20:4
Good News Translation
"Are you ready to pass sentence on them, mortal man? Then do so. Remind them of the disgusting things their ancestors did.

New Revised Standard Version
Will you judge them, mortal, will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their ancestors,

Contemporary English Version
Are you willing to warn them, Ezekiel? Then remind them of the disgusting sins of their ancestors.

New American Bible
Will you judge them? Will you judge, son of man? Tell them about the abominations of their ancestors,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.

judge them.

Ezekiel 14:14,20 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Ezekiel 22:2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

Ezekiel 23:36,45 And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds? . . .

Isaiah 5:3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee praise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 14:11-14 And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good. . . .

Jeremiah 15:1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

1 Corinthians 6:2 Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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Ezekiel 16:2,3 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. . . .

Matthew 23:29-37 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, . . .

Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . .

Luke 13:33-35 Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem. . . .

Acts 7:51,52 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
3Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not answer you, saith the Lord God. 4If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.5And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God:…
Cross References
Matthew 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Ezekiel 16:2
Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.

Ezekiel 22:2
And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

Ezekiel 23:36
And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?

Ezekiel 20:3
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